Example sentences of "[pers pn] thought it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it a great waste of money . |
| 2 | I just said I thought it a nice name . |
| 3 | Either way I thought it a nice gesture , and when I next caught his eye I smiled . |
| 4 | As talking had helped Violet , the girl in Hope , I thought it a good idea to let him talk himself to sleep . |
| 5 | I thought it a good idea . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Because I thought it a good idea to have your home address , ’ he added , in the same tone . |
| 7 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 8 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ Carrie said , though she thought it a strange dress for someone to wear in the daytime . |
| 10 | We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it . |
| 11 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 12 | The main point is this : Flaubert thought democracy merely a stage in the history of government , and he thought it a typical vanity on our part to assume that it represented the finest , proudest way for men to rule one another . |
| 13 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 14 | He thought it a fine idea , and presently excused himself — returning with a bottle of Mrs Westaway 's cowslip wine , in which to drink to the new venture . |
| 15 | First , he thought it an unspoken part of the 1931 bargain that MacDonald should not be discarded as soon as the immediate crisis was over . |
| 16 | Even as Felix drifted into sleep he thought it an evil omen . |